nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia have announced the second beta of Nokia Messaging for Social Networks, and they're now including Twitter support together with greater Facebook integration. The app is aimed at Nokia's N97, N97 mini and 5800 handsets, and the device's own communication - SMS and calls - are tied into individual profiles.

As well as photo uploading - complete with GPS geotagging - there's video uploading to Facebook too. You can also add a Facebook calendar event to your handset's calendar with one tap, and there's no full profile support so you can see other users' walls and photo galleries, and comment on them.

If the 2.5G of the 5530 XpressMusic doesn't appeal, and you want both 3G and some PND goodness in your new touchscreen Nokia, then the company's latest bundle may catch your eye. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition takes a standard 5800, subjects it to a few cosmetic tweaks, and packages it with Nokia's car kit and lifetime drive and walk navigation with voice-prompts for Ovi Maps.

Remember those photos purporting to show Nokia's 5900 XpressMusic phone? At the time we weren't sure whether they were a legitimate leak or a Chinese faux-phone; now Kunal over at Tech Ticker has been training his eagle-eye over the photos, and flagging up some obvious issues. The biggest is shown here: the memory card slot appears to be labeled "TFLASH", presumably for Transflash.

Images claiming to show Nokia's follow-up to the 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen cellphone, the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic, have leaked, and while there's no confirmation that these are legitimate they certainly look the part. Believed to include a larger, 3.5-inch touchscreen, 3.5mm headphone jack and 5-megapixel camera, the 5900 XpressMusic is expected to run the same Symbian S60 5th Edition OS as its predecessor.

On Cincinnati Bell, the smartphone will cost $149 with a two-year contract and a $100 mail-in rebate. But besides the lower price, this device remains the same as it is in other countries and as it's unsubsidized counterpart.

Standard features include GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.2-inch 360 x 640 touchscreen, a web browser and more. We don't know if the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will make it to other U.S. carriers, but for now, at least you have one option.

Nokia has something rather interesting up their sleeves. They've just announced that they will be releasing a special edition of their 5800 XpressMusic phone that ties in with the new Star Trek movie. Cool, huh?

Nokia have released an update for their 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen music-phone. The updated software - which is a free download - boosts internet data access speeds and tweaks in-device searching and the onboard email app.

Nokia are hoping to have turned a page on the 5800 XpressMusic NAM edition 3G signal debacle, with the news that a "configuration change" is to blame for the handset's poor reception. In its statement, Nokia calls the problem an "isolated situation" and claims that, once sales of the 5800 NAM resume, those models will not experience any issues.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM 3G saga continues, with the latest being talk of a firmware update that will solve all reception woes. According to an internal Nokia source, when reception was tested on a 5800 NAM edition with the latest firmware, no problems were found.